not paying attention or tending to business; negligent: You must have been out to lunch when you wrote that weird report.
A meal, typically consumed at midday. luncheon. daymeal. tea.
(England, slang) A contemptible or uncool person quotations ▼
to make a move on somone else's girlfriend. Compare lunch cutter. Contributor's comments: to be beaten to a particular person to date etc.; to be whiteanted; to have a prospective beau taken away from yourself: "He cut my lunch."
linner is a combination of lunch and dinner - like brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch! I'm having linner now - typically at around 4pm for a late lunch and then won't have dinner!
Q: It's a choice between “breaky” and “brekky”. Although, I've also seen “brekkie” and even “breakie”.
/ (ˈbrɛkɪ) / noun. a slang word for breakfast.
Key Takeaways. Eating someone's lunch, in general, refers to defeating or outwitting an opponent. In the corporate world, eating someone's lunch is to take market share from a competitor. Often, aggressive business tactics and marketing strategies are put to use to steal someone's lunch.
/ˈkʌt.ɪŋ/ unkind and intending to upset someone: a cutting remark/comment. He can be very cutting when he chooses to be! SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
(cut someone off) to stop having a close or friendly relationship with someone. Why did all his friends suddenly cut him off? Synonyms and related words. To end a friendship or relationship. defriend.
liquid lunch (plural liquid lunches) (informal) The consumption of alcohol with no (or little) food at lunchtime.
In most of the United Kingdom (namely, the North of England, North and South Wales, the English Midlands, Scotland, and some rural and working class areas of Northern Ireland), people traditionally call their midday meal dinner and their evening meal tea (served around 6 pm), whereas the upper social classes would call ...
An allowance, money given by parents to their children for food purchases and other things. Lunch Money (game), a card game. Lunch Money (novel), a 2005 novel by Andrew Clements. "Lunch Money" (song), a hip-hop single. "Lunch Money" (software), a personal finance & budgeting software developed by Lunchbag Labs.
“Grub” is a slang word for food. “I'm hungry. Let's get some grub!” Two other slang words for food are nosh and chow.
"Lunch was a very rare word up until the 19th Century," he says. One theory is that it's derived from the word "nuncheon", an old Anglo-Saxon word which meant a quick snack between meals that you can hold in your hands. It was used around the late 17th Century, says Yeldham.
Gobble up – English is a funny language isn't it? We wolf down, but we gobble up – and both mean the same thing: to eat fast. To gobble means to eat hungrily and hastily.
Yeet is a slang word that functions broadly with the meaning “to throw,” but is especially used to emphasize forcefulness and a lack of concern for the thing being thrown. (You don't yeet something if you're worried that it might break.)
Gucci is used as an adjective generally to mean "fancy, very fashionable"; "good, fine"; "great, excellent."
"Cuffing" is a term based on the idea of getting "handcuffed" or tied down to one partner. It refers to when people get into relationships during the colder months of the year, even though they ordinarily wouldn't be interested in a commitment.
The phrase "I want to buy you lunch" is an idiom that means exactly what you want to say: "I'd like to invite you to eat lunch with me and pay for your meal." The phrase "I want to buy your lunch" is not an idiom. It doesn't convey that you're inviting someone to eat with you, just that you'd like to pay for the meal.
If you have you lunch handed to you, you are outperformed and shown up by someone better.
Today's phrase: "pack a lunch." Advertisement. This indicates a large, sustained amount of effort.
brekkie – breakfast
Although it sounds like breakfast for kids, brekkie is the Australian meal everyone has in the morning. So…
According to Corpus of Global Web-Based English (GloWbE), Australia leads the world in the use of both terms, with “brekky” being slightly more popular. Here's the chart for “brekkie”: Although Australia has outstripped both countries, the abbreviations started out in Britain and Ireland.